香港填海歷史地圖

Hong Kong’s natural terrain is extremely hilly and developable land is scarce. In order for it to become a metropolitan city that it is today, numerous land reclamation projects were carried out to create buildable land. It is estimated over 35% of its developed land area has been reclaimed from the sea . These projects create huge economic, social and environmental impacts, and therefore a geodatabase would be helpful to give spatial, temporal and historic context to these projects.

This mapping application aims to provide spatial and temporal reference to these land reclamation projects that has been altering the city significantly. The story of the hidden and still changing coastline of the city will be narrated through the interfacing of geographic data and historic photos.